CHAPTER XLIX
Of Self-will, and how Lucifer and Adam fell away from God through
Self-will.
It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will.
The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there
were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that
Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth
nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with
the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say
Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God
willeth.